Western views of Islam in the Middle Ages

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Page 2themselves primarily to the social, legal, and political growth of European
countries, and it was not until the years between the ... But western Europe went
through all this painful experience ' I may mention especially U. Monneret de
Villard, ...

Page 12To judge only from the map, Islam pressed more menacingly on western Europe
in 1600 than it had done eight hundred years earlier. It had obliterated Byzantium
; it stood on the frontier of Germany and all along the southern shores of the ...

Page 104As the Turkish danger reached its height and Islam threatened to engulf Europe,
there was one last outburst of the ... In 1542 the Turks had overrun Hungary, the
first great kingdom of western Europe to be destroyed by external attack since the
...